--- description: The future of the Kurds, a global health corps to fight the next outbreak, a tolerable peace in Ukraine, revisiting end of life care & more. title: These Are Today's Best Ideas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Ideas](/section/ideas/) ## Ideas Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Innovation](/tag/innovation/) ## Innovation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 23 by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 23, 2014 4:01 PM CUT by [The Aspen Institute](/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Sep 23, 2014 4:01 PM CUT **1\.** [**As coalition bombs fall on Islamic State targets, the future of the Kurds hangs in the balance.**](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/fight-lives "undefined") By Dexter Filkins in the New Yorker **2\.** [**To solve massive international health crises and prevent future ones, the world needs a Global Health Workforce Reserve corps.**](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-barry-ebola-medical-reserves-20140919-story.html "undefined") By Michele Barry and Lawrence Gostin in the Los Angeles Times **3\.** [**In Ukraine, a bad peace is better than a long war with Russia.**](http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/09/19/why-this-ukraine-ceasefire-will-stick/ "undefined") By Anatole Kaletsky in Reuters **4\.** [**The spiraling costs of end-of-life care signal that significant change — in policy and mindset — is needed.**](http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/September/17/institute-of-medicine-says-dying-in-america-is-harder-than-it-has-to-be.aspx "undefined") By Jenny Gold in Kaiser Health News **5\.** [**Communities need information to survive and thrive. The public library is primed to meet that need.**](http://www.knightfoundation.org/blogs/knightblog/2014/9/22/meeting-information-needs-communities-public-library/ "undefined") By Amy Garmer in the Knight Blog  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/ "undefined") _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3421557/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-23/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3421557/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-23/"},"headline":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 23","datePublished":"2014-09-23T16:01:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:07:41.850Z","description":"The future of the Kurds, a global health corps to fight the next outbreak, a tolerable peace in Ukraine, revisiting end of life care & more.","url":"https://time.com/3421557/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-23/","keywords":["Innovation","Ukraine","russia","Healthcare","ISIS","Kurds","ceasefire","Libraries","ebola","outbreak","Islamic State"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3421557/five-best-ideas-of-the-day-september-23/","name":"Five Best Ideas of the Day: September 23"}}]}] ```